Thursday, 28 February 2013

Whistling Dixie

Barack Obama has seen fit to
lecture us benighted Brits on the value of the European Union. I have
only one observation: I do so wish that he would stick to his own Union and not
ours. Does he not have troubles enough on his doorstep? Perhaps he
might care for a few helpful tips on managing his own affairs? Would he
welcome such a thing? I rather think not.

He's a bit worried, you see, by
Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed in out referendum on British membership
of our less perfect Union. His administration has gone so far as to
‘warn’ (good word) our government against secession. Has Obama, by
chance, started to wear a stove pipe hat? There he is, hoping that the
mystic chords of memory will swell as they are touched by the better angels of
our nature, that and a word or two from him.

My mystic chords are starting
to hum. I’m a secessionist; I want the bells of Charleston...sorry,
London, to toll that day when we are once again free as a nation. I want
to be the first to fire on Fort Sumter, now conveniently located in
Brussels. The better angels of my nature tell me that the European Union
is an affront to liberty, an affront to everything this nation stands
for; an affront, for that matter, to everything America once stood for.
Quite frankly I can’t stand it; I can’t stand the bureaucrats and apparatchiks,
the foreigners who exercise more control over our destiny than our own
Parliament. If Obama thinks it is possible to fool all of the people all
of the time then he is wrong.

But he can stand it, sitting in
Washington, knowing not the first thing about this country or Europe.
Apparently he has raised the issue personally with Cameron. A strong
Britain in a strong Europe is in “America’s national interest.” Oh,
really? Well, then, let me return the favour – “Mister President, it is in the
British national interest for a strong America remains a member of the North
America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA.)” Now, just imagine the reaction to
that!

Obama’s earnest desire that the
British people are not allowed a vote on their future, just in case that such a
vote proves contrary to the ‘American interest’, has a long history in his
administration. Three years ago Vice President Joe Biden (what a perfect
foil against presidential assassination he is) visited Brussels, ludicrously
describing the place as “the capital of the free world” and the European Parliament
as the “bastion of European democracy.” He went on to compare it with the
US Congress. To that I say he understands little about his own political
process and nothing at all about ours.

But, please,
please witter on, Joe. As Neil Gardiner noted in theTelegraph, Obama and Biden’s
views on Europe “are as relevant to British voters as the futile ranting
of Herman Van Rompuy or Jose Manuel Barroso, and will only serve to reinforce
the determination of millions of Britons to throw off the shackles of Brussels.”
If that’s the case then they are to be welcomed!

American liberals, so I
believe, think that the EU is a jolly good thing, a beacon of benevolence, an
icon of peace, fairness and equality, as Lionel Shirver ironically observed in
the latest issue ofStandpoint. Criticising the
EU, she goes on to say, is like “drawing horns on Nelson Mandela, or making
lewd thrusting hand gestures at Aung San Suu Kyi.”

Do they know, do you know, what
incorporation in this Union actually means? Well, let me tell you this –
the Southern Confederates of 1860 and 1861 had not afractionof our grievances. Let’s play a
game, one which may help to focus things just a shade or two better. Just
imagine if the United States was part of a super
national Conglomerate, incorporating both North and South America.
Just imagine the capital of this Conglomerate is in, say, Mexico City.
Are you ready? OK, then, now we are set to go.

There are so many aspects of
your national life that are controlled from south of the border, down Mexico
way. Traders face severe legal penalties if they use any other than
the metric system; so forget about your quarter pounders.
Washington has no control over immigration policy or the nation’s territorial
waters; foreigners and foreign fishermen can come and go as they please; that’s
all to the good, because Guatemala and Honduras are about to join the
Conglomerate, thousands and thousands already looking hungrily towards your
vanishing border. Your law making bodies are no longer sovereign; even judgements by
the Supreme Court can be overruled. By the lights of the American Court
of Human Rights, based in Bogota, even foreign terrorists will be allowed to
remain, living for years on public support, because they have a “right to a
family life.” If, for any reason, the government offers the people a
choice on some aspect of the Conglomerate’s policy, then, if the result is a
negative one, the people will be asked to vote again and again until the people
get it right.

You think this is a joke, that
things could not possibly go to this extreme? It might be a joke for you;
I assure you it is not joke for us. The EU, contrary to Biden’s BS, is
not the beacon of democracy but its shadow. The European Parliament is
not Congress but a hugely corrupt sinecure. European democracy is a
pretence, a hollow shell, eaten from the inside by termites. It’s not the
people who decide on the great issues of the day but the bureaucrats.
Manuel Barroso, the bureaucrat-in-chief who heads the Commission, is a former
Maoist, which may give some insight into the political techniques he
favours.

People of my generation have never had a say in
whether we want to be part of the EU or not. The last vote we had on the
subject was in 1975, so only people of my parents’ generation have had a choice
on something that is of fundamental importance to us all. And that
referendum, I should add, was based on dissimulation, evasion and outright
political fraud. Mother and father voted yes then; they will not vote yes
now.

I have no interest in the
American interest. I have an interest in my own interest, an interest in
my future and the future of my nation, which is precisely why I want out of
this corrupt and deadening Leviathan, this contemptible Union. For all
these reasons and more I’m a secessionist. Obama can go hang and, for
good measure, let the EU drop with him. Meanwhile I shall sit on my hands
and whistle Dixie.

18 comments:

You can always blame Mum & Dad! It seems that NWO globalism is what the powers that be have in mind. The US is the Only major industrialized nation still using the old English system of measurement while most products bought in the US are imported with metric standard?

I do not know exactly what Il Clowno is offering except to return to the lire which of course Italy should have done pre Monti as should many other countries currently tied into the euro. However what is important not what the people want but the fact it is the people who want it.

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